Sondre Bjellås is currently working as Senior Solutions Architect at Steria in Norway.
With 13 years of experience with application development on Web and Windows, he is now focusing attention towards Cloud Computing. Currently writing a comprehensive book on Cloud Computing, what it is, what it means for businesses and how to utilize the potential behind it.
Sondre is skilled with Microsoft products, technologies and services. Sondre has in-depth knowledge and experience with Visual Studio Team System and Application Life-Cycle Management. Worked with Team Foundation Server integration and Continuous Integration for build automation, testing and installation package building. Creator of Shared Source project Automaton, CI Engine for TFS.
Worked on private projects using XNA Game Studio Express, Microsoft Robotics Studio and Windows Azure.
Has a hobby of video recording and editing, which fits well with his hobby into motorsports and drifting.
Silverlight
16 Aug 2010
How to Simplify Text Resources in Silverlight
Sondre Bjellas writes
"...simplify the way you work with resources in Silverlight 4. The normal procedure to bind against resources is writing an binding statement in the .Content or .Text property of your elements. I will explain how you can use a dependency property to extend your Silverlight controls with an Resource.Key (ResourceKey) property and one for Resource.Tooltip..."
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TechTalk
12 Aug 2010
What is Inside the Microsoft.Data Namespace?
Sondre Bjellas writes
"...Here is my analysis of the recently “released” (embedded) Microsoft.Data.dll assembly, the namespace and the types it includes. It’s been the topic of a lot of heated debate recently, with viewpoints I’m unable to relate to and understand just from reading, so I needed to understand. The debate is stemming from..."
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TechTalk
12 Jul 2010
Unity as IoC Container for Caliburn.Micro
Sondre Bjellas writes
"Caliburn.Micro is smaller, more lightweight and it has a lot of good features that I think are useful when building rich applications for WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7...Reducing complexity should always be one of the top priorities when building software...Go ahead and create a new WPF project or open any existing project you might have...This is how my bootstrapper ends up looking..."
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